Last covered by us in Week 18, 2025. High-resolution thermal imaging through a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Applications across agriculture, environmental conservation, urban planning and defence. "Beyond economics, thermal EO can help cut 2 Gigaton of GHG emissions annually and drive nature-positive action". In agriculture, for example, thermal imaging optimizes irrigation practices and prevents crop failure. The company has developed its first thermal payload, TAPAS-1, and is prepping for satellite integration. It has also started pilots to monitor heat and air pollution in Ahmedabad and Tumkur (KN). Its pipeline has $42M in LOIs. $2.2M seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures along with existing investors Merak, Java, IIMA-CIIE. The company raised a $3.3M pre-seed round in April 2025 led by Merak, along with Huddle (as well as GVFL, Java, IIMA, PointOne). Shravan (CEPT Univ '11; IIM Calcutta '15) and Urmil (Sahajanand College '96) are from Amnex Infotechnologies, heading business development for satellite solutions. Ranendu was a scientist at ISRO for 26 years.

Autonomy startup for commercial vehicles, which enables them to operate in confined environs (seaports, mining sites, airports, industrial yards) with a combination of retrofit hardware and an AI-powered fleet software. This allows industries to upgrade to autonomous fleets without investing in new vehicles or infra. It reports 100,000+ km of testing with zero safety incidents. It has partnerships with Tier 1 OEMs. ₹22CR (~2.36M) un-labeled round (seed or Pre-A?), following on a $1.71M seed round. Founded by Roshy and Rajaram.

AI-native platform for businesses to automate customer engagement across WhatsApp, voice, web, Instagram and email. The company has onboarded 20 B2C and D2C brands in India and the UK, including Sanfe, InstaAstro, Apps for Bharat. It is now targeting the US. ₹2CR pre-seed round. Angels in the round: Uday Sodhi (Founders Room Capital, a syndicate), Tarun Billa (JPMorganChase), Mayank Singh Tomar. Founded in Oct 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Arpit was a software engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, Anuj was a PM at Privado (compliance AI), Rishabh was an interaction designer at D.E. Shaw. The founders are all IIT Bombay. Arpit and Anuj are siblings.

AI-native platform for accounting firms. AI tools automate workflows across accounting and admin workflows, with a human-in-the-loop approach. i.e., AI assists accountants so they can save up to 30 hours a week and focus on high value tasks. The company targets independent accounting firms ($1-10M revenue scale) particularly in North America, where there is shortage of skilled professionals. Current scale unknown. Founded in Sep 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Arpit (IIT Delhi '07; IIMA '15) was VP at Stellaris Venture Partners (six years), Jagmal (IIT Delhi '06) was CTO at Paisabazaar and Janio Asia (Singapore based logistics platform).

Intelligent decision layer for enterprise cyber risk. Its platform integrates with existing security tools to reduce alert noise and translate fragmented data into actionable business risk insights. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, with an announced $4M cap. Founded in Jun 2025, Ahmedabad based. Founders: Rutvij was Partner and Director-Business at Teachmint, was Co-Founder and CTO of MyClassCampus, which he co-founded with his current co-founder Hitaishu (who was COO Of MyClassCampus).

The boAt co-founder’s new venture, with scarce detail on what it will do. It will lie at the intersection of creators, culture, content, branding and AI. ₹100CR seed round. Founded in Mar 2026, Delhi based. Founder Aman Gupta is the co-founder of BoAt.

Services as a Software platform which uses autonomous AI agents to execute enterprise workflows end-to-end, replacing traditional service layers that rely on humans. Its agents include an AI voice agent, ITSM agent and supply chain agent. It has deployed with clients in the US and UK, and entered into a partnership with TestMu AI (formerly known as LambdaTest) to deliver AI-led services to the Fortun 500. ARR is at $250K four months into launch. ₹1.2CR angel round from Ramakant Sharma (Livspace), Asad Khan, Amiya Pathak and others. Founded in Jan 2026, Noida based. Founder Rohit (Agra Univ.) was Co-Founder at Binary Informatics (dev firm) and at GoMedii (medical tourism platform). He is a former QA lead from GlobalLogic.

Domain specific AI coding models for systems software engineering for hardware systems. It is targeting regulated industries including data centres, robotics, semiconductors, telecom and defence. $2M seed round. AI-sovereignty is a key focus, with fully on-prem and air-gapped deployments so proprietary firmware, chip designs, and system code stay within organizational boundaries. Founded in Aug 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sairanjan (Berhampur University '04) started out as a software engineer at Philips and Toshiba, was Software Architect at Cisco (seven years). He founded YoBulk (AI-based CSV importer), which was acquired by TableFlow. Co-Founder Pulkit (NIT Kurukshetra '09) was the Founder of Pictogen AI (AI content creation) and Co-Founder of Acredit Technology (no background information). He was a software engineer at Google for a decade.

AI-native radio frequency satellite infrastructure, provided through a network of nano satellites. The goal is to provide clients in industries across maritime, aviation, defence, oil & gas and weather forecasting low-latency, high precision insights with 6x more data value per dollar, by capturing the entire radio spectrum compared to legacy satellites which are optical only (i.e. only capture images). The company is focused on getting to its first in-orbit mission. As mentioned in their pre-seed round: "images cannot track moving assets like ships or aircraft. Today, companies take four to four-and-a-half hours to reach a decision. We bring that down to under ten minutes". This is a $2M (~₹18.7CR) round led by Ashish Kacholia with participation from IPV. The company raised its $2.5M pre-seed round in Aug 2025, led by Piper Serica Angel Fund along with Turbostart, IPV and Eaglewings Ventures. Founded in Oct 2018, Bangalore based. Founders: Ankit (Kurekshetra Univ. '15) and Raghav (NIT Jalandhar '13) started Xovian Research Tech in 2014, a space-tech consulting firm in 2014. They started Xovian Aerospace in 2018.

AI-powered platform for early screening and therapy management of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism and ADHD. The company uses dual-AI (voice and vision) to provide a comprehensive view of a child’s speech patterns as well as facial expressions, eye gaze, and behaviours based on 189+ clinically validated criteria. A human in the loop ensures accuracy. The system is designed to save 70% of assessment time, enabling clinicians to handle a higher volume of patients while ensuring accuracy. It is used across schools, hospitals, private practices and daycare centres. $175K pre-seed round led by IPV. It has also received ₹25 lakh under the Nidhi Seed Support Scheme from GHRTBI. Part of the 4th cohort of IPV IdeaSchool. Founded in October 2024, Noida based. Founders: CEO Sahil (Galgotias LLB; Univ. of Maryland) started out the Indian National Bar Association and Lawyered (legal-tech startup) before setting up his own investment bank; Chief Medical Officer Prachi (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, BS (Audiology and Speech) is a speech thereapaist with a decade of clinical experience; CTO/CIO Vasyl (Kyiv National Economic University, Ukraine) was Co-Founder & CTO at Xpand Outreach (Israel)